Des Moines

            On Saturday, my family and my grandparents went to Des Moines. We had a great time

            First, we played Skywalk Golf. Skywalk Golf is an eighteen hole miniature golf course in the skywalks. My favorite hole was number 17. It had hundreds of screws that were nailed in to a tilted board. So then you hit the ball down onto the screws and where ever it landed, then you had to putt it in. It reminds me of “Plinko” on The Price Is Right. Even though I didn’t get any hole in ones, I still had a good time.

            After that, we went to Bang Bang, which is a Mongolian place. You can get the grill or stuff of the menus. The grill is basically a round grill that they put your food on.

            After eating at Bang Bang, we went shopping. I got some new shirts from Aerospotle and Elliot got an Orange Julius. Then we went home.

Do I Want To Go Back To School?

              There are going to be some changes next year. My dad might get a new job and my mom might go back to college. There are definitely going to be some changes next year. So I think that this is the big question. Do I want to go back to public school?

            I think that there will be some ups and downs about maybe going back to public school. I will definitely enjoy talking with my friends, although in my opinion that reason wouldn’t be one I would go back to school for. I will also enjoy doing P.E. See at homeschool, we hardly ever have physical education. And I wish that we did because I like to run, but my stamina isn’t going up any.

            Some of the cons about going back to school will be the ability to move around. Last year, I felt so tired of sitting on my butt for 7 hours. This is why I’m so glad about the sitting situation at home. If duty calls, then I can just get up and stretch for a few minutes. One more good thing about homeschool is that I learn a lot more than I would at public school. I have learned logic, vocabulary, geography, writing, history, reading, science and a few others.

            Anyway next year, if I could choose what I wanted to do, I would chose homeschool.

My Biggest Academic Challenge

            I think that my biggest academic challenge is not so much schoolwork, but my concentration. See, I don’t work well with concentration. I like to take extra time on things that don’t need extra time. Like when I’m doing any subject, I’ll just up and stop.

            I like to stop if something ditracts me . If my mom is watching something or my dad has not come upstairs in a while, then I will go see what they are doing. I think that I do this is because I have never had good concentration. Since kindergarden, I have been a bit lazy. Last year was proballly the biggest year for being lazy. It was because I had my first ever study hall. Study Hall is basically a period where you don’t have anything. This is a time for you to work on stuff. But see, I never had anything to do, so I was a bit lazy.

            I must and I will try harder to stop dilly-dallying. I like to be lazy if I’m tired of doing a subject. If I am tired of doing a subject, sometimes, I will play with our cat, Juno. Sometimes, I cannot believe that the day is done and I still have a bunch of homeschool things to do.  I know realize that I need to stop taking those breaks.

Doctor Who

           Out of the twenty-four hours on Thursday, we spent 2 of them watching Doctor Who. Doctor Who is a British television show that started in the 60’s. The main character is the doctor who is a mysterious time traveler. We were only introduced to Doctor Who about a month ago, so it’s still pretty new.

            Doctor Who is a great bit of fun. It had funny and serious parts in it. The first episode that we watched was “Rose”. In that episode, a girl named Rose Tyler becomes the doctor’s traveling companion. In this episode, there is another thing. Rose and the doctor are protecting London from invading mannequins. (It was a funny episode). Then after that, we watched another Doctor Who where there were weeping angels and if you didn’t look at them, then they would move closer and closer and closer until they could touch you in which then you are transport back an amount of years. In one case, it was 90 years and in another, it was 40 years. Anyway, Doctor Who is very very exciting and scary. It is intense and at every part, it makes me afraid of what will happen next. If you like intense, then Doctor Who is for you.

Boy Scouts

Boy Scouts

            If you read my blog titled,”How my weekend went,” you should have seen that on Saturday, I went to a Boy Scout camp out. This was my first camp out with the Boy Scouts. And this is how Boy Scouts started.

            At the end of October, one of my good friends, Grant, asked me if I wanted to join Boy Scouts. Then I said yes and that next Tuesday, I went to my first Boy Scout meeting. It was okay. They were talking about what food to bring for the next camp out (Not the one that I went to). I couldn’t go to this camp out because we had something to do that weekend. So I skipped that camp out.

The next meeting which was on a Thursday (our meeting could be Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. We don’t always met on a certain day of the week.) we did requirements. Requirements are things that Boy Scouts have to do in order to gain badges. There are about 13 requirements until you get a badge. Some take longer than others and some are easier than others.

I didn’t get any that night because I didn’t even have a Boy Scout book. But at the next meeting, (which was on a Tuesday), we prepared for our next camp out (which was the one that I went to). Well at the campout, I got seven whole requirements done. The second highest number of requirements that a person got was one requirement. But the only reason that I got so many was that I had just started and there were some really easy ones in there. Well, I have had a very good time doing Boy Scouts because it is very fun.  

How my Weekend Went

This weekend went great for me. On Friday after school, I had a basketball game. We sadly lost. But then after my game, my family and I went over to my cousin’s house to celebrate New Year. So we couldn’t actually do it on the 31^st of December because my family was in New Orleans. So instead, we did it the 7^th. I had a blast. We got to play a fighting game with shields and we played Nerf Gun Wars and we stayed up until 12 o’clock. Then I came right home and went right to sleep. The next thing that I know, its 7 o’clock and we have to go to my Boy Scout camp out. Basically at the camp out, I get some requirements done. Requirements are where we have to show that we know this thing. I think that the only bad thing was being cold. On Saturday night and Sunday morning, I was super cold. Even though, my dad had brought me a sleeping bag, it was still cold. Then at 8:00 the next morning, our troop headed out. On Sunday, I really did nothing, but stay at home and read and play Wii.

            Overall, my weekend went great. I played a fun game of basketball and stayed up very late to have a party. And then I went to my Boy Scout camp out and had a great time. This weekend was a perfect weekend for me because I was doing something this weekend.  

2012, So Far

2011 was a good year. It had its ups and downs. But this year is going to be better.

            This year is supposed to be when the sun explodes and giant natural disasters destroy the earth, but I am not planning on it. My big plans for 2012 are to learn Spanish (at least part of it), try and be nicer, and to work harder on everything that I do.

            If this means that I must take extra time to do things, I will. Also I am going to be nicer at home. Some times at home, my siblings and I like to fight. We argue and then we fight. It will help out this family be better. I think that by not fighting that they will take after me and stop fighting. I also really wanted to learn Spanish. I have always wanted to learn a new language because it sounded interesting. Well for Christmas, my grandma gave me a Spanish learning system. I started it yesterday. It was awesome because of how it makes learning Spanish fun. You have flash cards that have the Spanish word and what it translates to. I have already learned 34 words in Spanish.